Trends in COVID-19 patient characteristics in a large electronic health record database in the United States: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic health record (EHR) databases provide an opportunity to facilitate characterization and trends in patients with COVID-19.

Methods

Patients with COVID-19 were identified based on an ICD-10 diagnosis code for COVID-19 (U07.1) and/or a positive SARS-CoV-2 viral lab result from January 2020 to November 2020. Patients were characterized in terms of demographics, healthcare utilization, clinical comorbidities, therapies, laboratory results, and procedures/care received, including critical care, intubation/ventilation, and occurrence of death were described, overall and by month.

Results

There were 393,773 patients with COVID-19 and 56,996 with a COVID-19 associated hospitalization. A greater percentage of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 relative to

SUBMITTER: Liang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299343 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature